issues archive

December

• New Jersey Backs 45 Community Solar Projects
  

  by Darrell Proctor

• Subsidy-Free Onshore Wind Farm Will Host First Siemens Gamesa 5-MW Turbines
  

  by Sonal Patel

• ‘Breakthrough Technology’ Uses Sunlight to Produce Renewable Hydrogen
  

  by Aaron Larson

November

• ‘GREEN Act of 2019’ Extends Tax Credits for Renewables
  

  by Darrell Proctor

• IEA World Energy Outlook: Solar Capacity Surges Past Coal and Gas by 2040
  

  by Sonal Patel

• GE Will Close Georgia Plant; 200 Jobs at Stake
  

  by Darrell Proctor

September

• PV Peaker Plant a Model for Solar-Plus-Storage Projects
  

  by POWER

• Successful Dam Stabilization Project Improves Safety and Reliability
  

  by POWER

• Solar Plant Aims to be ‘Benchmark of Excellence’
  

  by POWER

August

• Group Will Build ‘First of its Kind’ Pumped-Storage Project in Dubai
  

  by Darrell Proctor

• Biomass Power: Stalled in the Market, Stalled in Washington
  

  by POWER

• Feds Delay Environmental Permit for Vineyard Wind Project
  

  by Darrell Proctor

July

• New York Enacts 100% Clean Energy Law, Secures 1.7 GW of Offshore Wind
  

  by Sonal Patel

• A Fine Couple They Are (Wind and Solar Power)
  

  by Aaron Larson

• GE Is Speeding Massive Offshore Wind Turbine to Market
  

  by Sonal Patel

June

• Where Is the Microgrid Market Headed?
  

  by POWER

• MHPS, Magnum Will Build 1-GW Renewable Energy Storage Facility in Utah
  

  by Sonal Patel

• The POWER Interview: State of the Wind, Solar, Storage, and Hydro Markets
  

  by Darrell Proctor

May

• Best Practices for Wind Project Partial Repowering
  

  by POWER

• Bringing the Heat: Geothermal Making Inroads as Baseload Power
  

  by POWER

• High-Volume Hydrogen Gas Turbines Take Shape
  

  by POWER

April

• Duke Energy Projects Lead Carolinas’ Solar Expansion
  

  by Darrell Proctor

• Wind Industry Prepares for Massive Expansion
  

  by Sonal Patel

• Solar Power Is Economical Today, but Comes With Challenges
  

  by Aaron Larson

January 30

• Cementing Coal Power Phaseout, Germany Sets Out to Shutter 40% of Current Generation Mix
  

  by Sonal Patel

• MOX Nuclear Fuel Loaded in Russian Reactor, More to Come
  

  by Aaron Larson

• GEH Launches NRC Licensing Process for BWRX-300, an ESBWR-Derived SMR
  

  by Sonal Patel

January 23

• Coal Is Out as APS Sets Carbon-Free Goal
  

  by Darrell Proctor

• Environmental Concerns Dominate Global Risks List
  

  by Aaron Larson

• Interest in DOE’s Versatile Test Reactor Heats Up
  

  by Sonal Patel

January 16

• Exelon Installs New Accident Tolerant Fuel at Illinois Nuclear Plant
  

  by Aaron Larson

• Tri-State Will Close Its Last Coal Units in Colorado, New Mexico
  

  by Darrell Proctor

• EIA: Renewables Will Surge Past Coal, Nuclear to 22% of U.S. Power Mix in 2021
  

  by Sonal Patel

January 10

• Deal Announced to Close Louisiana Coal Unit
  

  by Darrell Proctor

• PJM Stakeholders at Odds on Timing for Next Capacity Auction
  

  by Sonal Patel

• New York Is Fertile Ground for Clean Energy
  

  by Aaron Larson

January 2

• Why the 2010s Were a Definitive Decade for Power
  

  by Sonal Patel

• A Decade of Turmoil: How Nuclear and Coal Have Struggled to Survive
  

  by Aaron Larson

• UAE Set to Start First Nuclear Plant; Sweden, Germany Shut Units
  

  by Darrell Proctor

January 2

• Top 6 Nuclear Power Achievements of 2019
  

  by Aaron Larson

• EPA Overrides Subpart D in Newly Proposed Federal Coal Ash Permitting Rule
  

  by Sonal Patel

• The Significance of FERC’s Recent PJM MOPR Order Explained
  

  by Sonal Patel

January 2

• NERC: Long-Term Reliability Uncertain Amid Rapid Changes to Bulk Power System
  

  by Sonal Patel

• EU Finalizes ‘Green Deal’ for Clean Energy Investment
  

  by Darrell Proctor

• Hitachi Exiting MHPS; MHI Will be Venture’s Sole Owner
  

  by Sonal Patel

December 12

• Ownership Shakeup at Colstrip Coal Power Plant
  

  by Aaron Larson

• NRC Issues First Subsequent License Renewals, Extends Nuclear Reactor Life to 80 Years
  

  by Sonal Patel

• Connecticut Gives Go-Ahead for 804-MW Offshore Wind Project
  

  by Darrell Proctor

November 27

• Siemens Delivers World’s First HL-Class Gas Turbine to North Carolina Site
  

  by Aaron Larson

• State Regulators Warn of More Delays at Vogtle
  

  by Darrell Proctor

• What’s Driving Wholesale Power Price Changes? Not What You Think
  

  by Sonal Patel

July

• CBO Scopes Out Pros and Cons of a Carbon Tax
  

  by POWER

• Turmoil, Confusion Continues at the National Labor Relations Board
  

  by POWER

• Master Limited Partnerships: Useful Tool or Green Finance Gimmick?
  

  by POWER

May

• A Novel Managerial Challenge: Decommissioning Coal
  

  by POWER

• The CIP Merry-Go-Round: Say So Long to Version 4, Hello to Version 5?
  

  by POWER

• What Is Holding Back Offshore Wind?
  

  by POWER

March

• NLRB Overturns Dues Precedent, Faces Court Challenge
  

  by POWER

• Value: One of the Most Confounding Propositions We Face
  

  by POWER

• Mexico’s Power Sector Attracts New Investors
  

  by POWER

January

• Outage Management with an Owner’s Engineer
  

  by POWER

• Coal Ash Recycling Stalls During Regulatory Struggle
  

  by POWER

• Terror Threat to Grid Is Real, Says Suppressed Study
  

  by POWER

November

• Clean Air Rules: Unintended Consequences Generator?
  

  by POWER

• Whistleblower Heartaches, Headaches and Heads Ups
  

  by POWER

• Financing U.S. Renewable Energy Projects in a Post-Subsidy World
  

  by POWER

September

• NERC Cyber Security Rules: Evolution or Brownian Motion?
  

  by POWER

• Rare Earths: China Strikes Back
  

  by POWER

• Helpful Tips When Terminating an Employee
  

  by POWER

July

• Uranium and Nuclear Fuel: No Bottlenecks Ahead
  

  by POWER

• Cyber Threats to SCADA Systems Are Real
  

  by POWER

• PwC: Big Demand Meets Tight Money in Power’s Future
  

  by POWER

May

• The Future of Renewable Energy Finance
  

  by POWER

• Leveraging State Clean Energy Funds
  

  by POWER

• End Game for Rare Earth Dispute?
  

  by POWER

March

• A Year of Fukushima’s Economic Fallout
  

  by POWER

• Investing in Information to Respond to a Changing Climate
  

  by POWER

• Buying and Selling Energy Trading Portfolios
  

  by POWER

January

• Settlement Reached in Largest U.S. Coal Ash Cleanup
  

  by Darrell Proctor

• Transformative Coal Power Technologies Take Shape
  

  by POWER

• The Significance of FERC’s Recent PJM MOPR Order Explained
  

  by Sonal Patel

December

• EPA Reinterprets ‘Ambient Air,’ Further Tweaks New Source Review 
  

  by Sonal Patel

• Is Chasing Grid Demand Killing Your Large Coal Boiler? Here Are Four Concerns to Address
  

  by POWER

• What’s Driving Wholesale Power Price Changes? Not What You Think
  

  by Sonal Patel

November

• EPA Proposes Revisions to Two Obama-Era Rules: Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Coal Ash
  

  by Sonal Patel

• GE Shelves Plans to Spin-Off Digital Business
  

  by Sonal Patel

• Facility to Make Coal Cleaner, More Efficient, Taking Shape in Wyoming
  

  by Darrell Proctor

October

• NETL: Coal Chemical Looping Combustion Closer to Commercialization
  

  by Sonal Patel

• A New Technology for Bottom Ash Conversion Emerges
  

  by POWER

• Researchers: $71 Billion of Japan’s Coal Assets at Risk
  

  by Darrell Proctor

September

• PG&E’s Reorganization Plan—Cap Wildfire Liabilities at $18 Billion
  

  by Darrell Proctor

• Combustion Optimization to Improve Heat Rate and Lower NOx
  

  by POWER

• FERC’s LaFleur Decries Partisanship and Politicization
  

  by Aaron Larson

August

• Healy 2: The Story of a Coal Unit’s Remarkable Resiliency
  

  by POWER

• The World-Class Coal Power Efficiency of Rheinhafen-Dampfkraftwerk Block 8
  

  by POWER

• SCR Project Upgrades Two Units at Four Corners
  

  by POWER

July

• EPA Delayed on Proposed ELG Revisions for Steam Power Plants
  

  by Sonal Patel

• Wheeler: Keeping U.S. Coal Sector Alive Will Benefit ‘International Environmental Protection’
  

  by Sonal Patel

• Coal Unit CCUS Retrofits More Economic Than Many Alternatives, NETL Study Suggests
  

  by Sonal Patel

June

• Power Marketer to Tri-State: We’ll Buy and Close Your Coal Plants
  

  by Darrell Proctor

• Illinois Passes Landmark Coal Ash Legislation
  

  by Sonal Patel

• The Future Direction of Respiratory Protection
  

  by Aaron Larson

May

• Enhanced Wastewater Treatment Technology for Ash Transport Water
  

  by POWER

• EPA Will Issue Final Carbon Rules for Power Plants in June
  

  by Sonal Patel

• Federal Court Vacates Parts of Obama EPA’s ELG Rule 
  

  by Sonal Patel

October

• GE Unveils New H-Class Gas Turbine—and Already Has a First Order
  

  by Sonal Patel

• Work Ethic Leads to ‘World Class’ Performance
  

  by POWER

• Competitive Advantages: Power Plant Wins with Low Fuel Costs, High Efficiency
  

  by POWER

September

• IHS: Natural Gas Prices Will Fall Below $2/MMBtu in 2020
  

  by Sonal Patel

• New York City to Get Eight Floating Aeroderivative Gas Turbines
  

  by Sonal Patel

• Report: Gas-Fired Generation Will Rise in Pennsylvania as Coal, Nuclear Decline
  

  by Darrell Proctor

August

• Automated Plant Startups Reduce Fixed and Fuel-Related Costs
  

  by POWER

• PG&E Asks Bankruptcy Judge to Back Restructured Power Deals
  

  by Darrell Proctor

• Adding Fog for Power Augmentation and Emission Reduction
  

  by POWER

July

• Egypt Megaproject: An Expedited Power Transformation
  

  by POWER

• A Brief History of GE Gas Turbines
  

  by Sonal Patel

• The POWER Interview: New Directions for Aeroderivative Gas Turbines at PWPS 
  

  by Sonal Patel

June

• The POWER Interview: GE Unleashing a Hydrogen Gas Power Future
  

  by Sonal Patel

• Piloting Boiler Startup at Lightspeed
  

  by POWER

• Financing Secured for GE’s UAE Combined Cycle Project
  

  by Darrell Proctor

May

• Siemens Will Exit Power, Gas, Renewable Businesses
  

  by Sonal Patel

• Insights Into Siemens’ Stunning Gas and Power, Renewables Shakeup
  

  by Sonal Patel

• GE Tops MHPS, Siemens in 1Q Turbine Orders
  

  by Darrell Proctor

April

• Inside NET Power: Gas Power Goes Supercritical 
  

  by Sonal Patel

• What Are Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles?
  

  by Sonal Patel

• New Gas-Fired Plants Come Online in Michigan
  

  by Darrell Proctor

March

• ERCOT Warns of Intensified Summer Supply Crunch (UPDATED)
  

  by Sonal Patel

• High-Purity Boiler Water pH Measurement
  

  by POWER

• Energy Secretary Wants to Fast-Track U.S. LNG Export Projects
  

  by Darrell Proctor

February

• Financial and Gas Turbine Blade Troubles Plague GE Power
  

  by Sonal Patel

• Iraqi Official Casts Doubt on Deals With GE, Siemens
  

  by Darrell Proctor

• How to Alleviate Waterside Issues in Boilers and HRSGs
  

  by POWER

January

• THE BIG PICTURE [Infographic]: Solar’s Explosive Growth
  

  by Tracey Lilly

• Evolution of the Smart Grid at Forefront of Transformative Change
  

  by POWER

• Hydraulic Stability of Surge Tanks
  

  by POWER

December

• THE BIG PICTURE: The Need for Power Flexibility
  

  by Sonal Patel

• Report: Blockchain Not Well-Suited to Transactive Energy
  

  by POWER

• Decarbonization: Utilities Leading the Way
  

  by POWER

November

• Protecting Critical Infrastructure from Drone Intrusions
  

  by POWER

• EAM Solutions Stretch Capabilities of Lean Plant Maintenance Teams
  

  by POWER

• Hydrocarbon Molecules Know No Borders: The U.S.-Mexico Natural Gas Dilemma
  

  by POWER

September

• How Remote Operation Centers Can Help Companies Transition
  

  by Aaron Larson

• Show Preview: Distributed Energy Conference 2019
  

  by Tracey Lilly

• India Starts Up Its First-Ever USC Coal Unit
  

  by Sonal Patel

September

• The X Factor in the Power Market’s New Math
  

  by Aaron Larson

• THE BIG PICTURE: Renewable Portfolio Standards
  

  by Tracey Lilly

• How to Ensure Plant Reliability and Regulatory Compliance
  

  by Aaron Larson

July

• THE BIG PICTURE: A Spotlight on Oil-Fired Power
  

  by Tracey Lilly

• Novel Nuclear Wastewater Treatment Ready for Market
  

  by POWER

• SCR Project Upgrades Two Units at Four Corners
  

  by POWER

June

• How to Position Your Power Company for the Future
  

  by Aaron Larson

• A Fine Couple They Are (Wind and Solar Power)
  

  by Aaron Larson

• Iraq Developing Solar to Complement GE, Siemens Projects
  

  by POWER

June

• The Future Direction of Respiratory Protection
  

  by Aaron Larson

• THE BIG PICTURE: Siemens’ Corporate History
  

  by Tracey Lilly

• How Residential Energy Storage Could Help Support the Power Grid
  

  by Aaron Larson

April

• Q&A With Geothermal Experts
  

  by Darrell Proctor

• THE BIG PICTURE: 30 Innovations Revolutionizing the Power Industry
  

  by Sonal Patel

• Clump Weights in Offshore Mooring Systems
  

  by Aaron Larson